The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-01-07
CRTMEs AND CASUALTIES.

REV. Q. B. SCALES, of East Lynn. Ill,
who ran away with Miss Matthews, leav-
ing his wife and five children behind, was
arrested at London, Ont, on the 2Sth. The
parties concerned consented to 60 back in
charge of detective.
THE door Of the pOst-office at Eyeter, n.
H., was pried open with a spike on the
night Of the 27th, the safe blown open and
robbed of a steel chest containing several
hundred dollars worth of stamps besides
money and valuables.
THE safe IN the post-offce at Wadsworth
o., was blown open on the night of the
| 27th, and about five hundred dollars in
m oney, sixty dollars IN stamps and two
! checks were taken.
Two of the participants in the great ex-
| press robbery have squealed on Fother-
| ingham, stating that ne was to receive
| $4,000 for allowing himself to be robbed
in the manner he was. A large additional
/ sum of the stolen money has been recOv-
/ ered and the Piukertons think they will
ultimately secure the greater portion of
| the amount stolen.
! AN entire block Of buildings at Green's
/ burg, Pa. was burned on the 19th.
| THOMAS LANcHAS, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
/ stabbed his wife on the 29th 50 that it was
/ thought she would die.
WILLIAM HUTTON, a farmer Of Fillmore
| County, Mimi, was bunzoed out of $1,000
| at New Y Ork on the 29th.
THE steamer Sir John was burned off st.
John, n. B., on the 29th, and five persons
were fatally injured by fire and enc was
drowned.
r. L. MILLER and his son was indicted
| by the grand jury of Tazewen County, w.
| Va, on the 29th for having set fire TO their
/ hotel at POcahOntas last October. George
| and Charles Baker. two worthy young men
of Pocahontas, were burned to death in the
/ hotel at the time OF the fire.
! FIVE persons were killed at a fire in
| Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, on the
3Oth
IRA BICKEL. Of Waubeck. Ia, killed his
father with a club on the 30th.
HALF of the town of Marlboro, Nd, was
destroyed by fire on the 30th
PEPPINA LATORRE, an Italian girl, fell IN
/ front of an Elevated railroad train at New
| York on the Both, and was crushed to
| death.
A REPORT is current that Mexican troops
| and revolutionists have had a terrible
| fight in SinalOa, Mexico, and many were
! killed on both sides The report has not
yet been confirmed.
TIE removal of the snow which fell in
the late storm in Germany has revealed
/ an appalling loss of life Many travellers
| were ovcrtaken by the storm. Fifty
| bodies have been found in SaxOny, thirty
in Thuriugia and forty in Southern Ger
| many. 1t is estimated that the total loss
| OF life will be nearly two hundred.
THE three principals in the celebrated
| Frisco express robbery, Wittrock Haight
| and Weaver, are safely housed in jail at
ST. Louis and nearly all of the stolen
/ money has been recovered and returned
to the Adams Express Company. The men
/ have all made confessions and viii not in
/ volve the courts in an expensive trial.
| They all agree as to Messenger Fothering-
/ hum's innocence.
TEN men were killed and many others
were seriously injured by collision be
| tween q construction train and a freight
! on the Southern Pacific railway near
/ Devils Run. ON the night of the 31st.
OK the evening of the 1st Mrs. Lizzie
/ LcpPer and Miss Tina Muck er were killed
and seven other young ladies wounded a.
Fort Wayne Ind, by the sleigh in which
they We're riding to dance, being ru1
into by train at d railway crossing. Then
male escorts all escaped by jumping from
the sleigh, but the ladies were not quicl
enough.
ON the 3lst ult nearly three hundred
natives lost their lives 10y the burning o.
the reserved inclosure of the Peoples Parl
at Madras, India.